Bashir is Director of Technology & Innovation Special Projects at Saudi Aramco. He was Director of Technology Strategy & Planning for ten years and prior to that he served as Interim Vice President of Research at the King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Center (KAPSARC), from 2008-2012. He has occupied several administrative and technical positions in Saudi Aramco including Senior Consultant, Strategic Transformation Office and Coordinator of the R&D Division in the Research and Development Center. Bashir has received 22 US patents and co-authored many publications in refereed journals, including one that has been cited more than 5000 times.

Bashir was a member of the Global Future Councils on Advanced Materials and Advanced Energy Technologies at the World Economic Forum. He is a member of the Board of Trustees for the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Award (King Prize) honoring inventors and the gifted; a member of the Rice Carbon Hub Carbon Leadership Board; and a member of the Hydrogen Council Coordination Committee.

Bashir was an academic visitor in the department of chemical engineering at Imperial College London. He received a B.S. in chemistry summa cum laude from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Ph.D. in physical chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) working under the supervision of the 2023 Chemistry Nobel Prize recipient Prof. Moungi Bawendi on highly luminescent color selective quantum dots. He completed the Saudi Aramco Leadership Challenge and the Advanced Management and Leadership Program at Oxford University Said Business School.